(v. t.) To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
(v. t.) To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
(v. t.) To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
(v. t.) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
(v. t.) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
(v. t.) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
(v. t.) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
(v. t.) To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
(v. t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.
(v. i.) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
(n.) Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings are more consistent with those in studies of panic disorder.
(2) Therefore, these findings may extend the use of platelets as neuronal models.
(3) The typical findings have been related to their anatomical localisation and frequency.
(4) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(5) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(6) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
(7) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(8) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(9) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(10) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(11) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
(12) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(13) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
(14) The findings suggest that these two syndromes are associated with dysfunction at two different sites within the frontal lobes.
(15) The findings clearly reveal that only the Sertoli-Sertoli junctional site forms a restrictive barrier.
(16) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(17) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(18) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
(19) Induction of labor, based upon only (1) a finding of meconium in the amniocentesis group or (2) a positive test in the OCT group, was nearly three times more frequent in the amniocentesis group.
(20) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
Rind
Definition:
(n.) The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell.
(v. t.) To remove the rind of; to bark.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of clinical symptoms and CT scan findings, 66 patients were categorized as having sustained a RIND and 187 a stroke.
(2) CT scanning has identified a subset of these patients who have sustained a reversible ischemic neurologic deficit (RIND) rather than a completed stroke.
(3) As early as E6 glial cells were labeled including the glial cells located in the rind between the neurons and the glial cells surrounding the neuropil.
(4) The method was used in one patient whose heart was surrounded by a thick rind of fibrous scar tissue following two previous operations for coronary artery disease, and was highly successful when other methods had failed.
(5) Estrogen levels in pregnant women provide a means of monitoring the feto-placental bond, since in late pregnancy, estriol is produced by the fetal adrenal rind.
(6) Alcoholic extracts of the rhizomes of Alpinia galanga, Andrographis paniculata, bark of Cinnamomum zeylanicum, rind of Citrus decumana, Desmodium triflorum, seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana, rhizomes of Kaempfaria galanga, Lippia nodiflora, tender leaves of Morinda citrifolia, rhizomes of Pollia serzogonian, Tephrosia purpuria and rhizomes of Zingiber zerumbeth showed good in vitro anthelmintic activity against human Ascaris lumbricoides.
(7) Out of the total number, 46 (11.3%) operations were done in the 1st, asymptomatic stage of disease, for the haemodinamically significant stenoses and ulcerated plaques; 173 (42.5%) in the 2nd clinical stage for hemispheral and nonhemispheral transient ishemic attacks (TIA) and reversible neurologic deficits (RIND); 3 (0.7%) in the 3rd stage which is a progressive cerebrovascular stroke and 185 (45.5%) in the 4th clinical stage of the disease, in patients with previous cerebral infarction and a permanent neurologic deficit.
(8) The system has been evaluated and applied to the determination of 2-phenylphenol (2PP) fortified in orange rind.
(9) Acephate residue levels in rind were less than 3.0 ppm 14 days after treatment; acephate residues in pulp were less than 3.0 ppm throughout the experiment.
(10) Salads might feature watermelon, pickled rinds and cashews, while cocktails are little belters: the Del Bac Date ($12), made with Tucson’s malt whisky and local fruit, is purest nectar.
(11) The symptoms of moyamoya disease were due to cerebral ischemia, such as transient ischemic attack (TIA), reversible ischemic neurological deficit (RIND), and minor stroke.
(12) Patients with TIA (n = 44; male 21, 58.3 years SD 12.3), complicated migraine (n = 3, all female, 24, 40, 63 years) and RIND (n = 17; male 10, 56.5 years SD 16.8) showed no abnormalities of CCT and AR as compared to normals.
(13) The menu was diplomatic: rind de bouillon with vegetables and pancake stripes, asparagus with veal schnitzel, followed by strawberries and ice cream and cheese and grapes, along with German wines.
(14) In particular, the incidence was checked of: cardiovascular death, reinfarction, angina pectoris, TIA or RIND, stroke, arterial thromboembolism, venous thromboses, heart failure, complex ventricular arrhythmias, silent myocardial ischemia.
(15) In mature adult worms (4-6 months post-infection), the rind of nerve cell bodies has completely disappeared and cell bodies are scattered around and within the neuropile.
(16) The described procedure is particularly useful in reoperations on a heart with a covering rind of fibrous scar tissue.
(17) It is suggested that TIAs, including AF, and RIND should be regarded as separate entities from a pathophysiological and clinical point of view.
(18) Other labelled somata lie dispersed or in small groups around the protocerebral bridge, below the optic tubercles, proximal to the ventral rim of the lobula, and in the lateral and ventral somatal rind of the suboesophageal ganglion.
(19) Of these patients, 43 who had clinical symptoms of TIA, RIND, or bruits on the neck or supraclavicular fossa, were reviewed.
(20) Grate some rind into risottos, pasta sauces, stews and puddings (but don't grate too deep – the white pith doesn't taste good.)